adding new hard disk: requesting comments and suggestions

[H. S.]

Hi,

I am going to buy a new HD, and was wondering if you have some advice,
suggestions, warning or comments:

I am thinking of buying 120.0GB Western Digital 7200 8M hard disk.

I am using RH8.0, on ASUS P4B, 1.9GHz. I have a 60GB HD with a CD-RW and
a CD-burner drives.

So, does anyone know of any problems with the above drive I am thinking
of buying?

I guess I have to install the new HD as slave, but alternatives or
comments are welcome. After installing, I plan to repartion this drive,
so that I have some partions on this one, /home and /opt being two. I
would also like to partition the new one such that i have a separate
partition to experiment with other Linux flavors, which would see the
same /home.

And finally, in addition to any words of wisdom, any pointers to web
pages which explain the procedure of adding a new HD on a Linux machine
are also welcome.

thanks,
->HS
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[ray]

H. S. wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am going to buy a new HD, and was wondering if you have some advice,
> suggestions, warning or comments:
>
> I am thinking of buying 120.0GB Western Digital 7200 8M hard disk.
>
> I am using RH8.0, on ASUS P4B, 1.9GHz. I have a 60GB HD with a CD-RW and
> a CD-burner drives.
>
> So, does anyone know of any problems with the above drive I am thinking
> of buying?
>
> I guess I have to install the new HD as slave, but alternatives or
> comments are welcome. After installing, I plan to repartion this drive,
> so that I have some partions on this one, /home and /opt being two. I
> would also like to partition the new one such that i have a separate
> partition to experiment with other Linux flavors, which would see the
> same /home.
>
> And finally, in addition to any words of wisdom, any pointers to web
> pages which explain the procedure of adding a new HD on a Linux machine
> are also welcome.
>
> thanks,
> ->HS

There is a howto which addresses that procedure.

[Chris Priede]

H. S. <g_reate_xcalibur@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am thinking of buying 120.0GB Western Digital 7200 8M hard disk.

It's a good drive. I have had one for about 18 months now.

Which, on the other hand, would make me wonder if there's a better EIDE
drive by now -- if I was buying now, as you are. Check out
[url]http://www.storagereview.com/[/url] .

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Chris Priede (priede@panix.com)